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New communications strategy for Council of the North

Posted on: May 20th, 2013 by CEP Administrator No Comments
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May 17, 2013 - Prince Albert (SK) – Bishop Michael Hawkins, Chair of the Council of the North, is pleased to announce that Hauser Communications, based in Napanee, ON, has been chosen to fill a one-year contract to provide communications services for the council.

The new communications strategy will focus on sharing stories of the council that reflect the church’s five Marks of Mission. According to Bishop Hawkins, “We have stories to tell to the entire church: stories of heroic and sacrificial service, and stories of individual and community transformation through the Anglican Church’s ministry of presence and gospel proclamation.”

Bishop Barbara Andrews (Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior) describes stories of northern ministry as stories about “facing challenges with creativity.”  Many have also described the council as the proving ground of the church-a place where new strategies and new ways of doing ministry are tested. In this way, the council plays a special and integral role in the ongoing life of the wider church-squarely facing the difficulties of the Canadian church’s work in the 21st century with openness and courage.

Hauser Communications, with experience in developing print, video and online resources for the church, will focus on the collection and sharing of these stories.

In the initial stages, the work will centre on preparing for the Joint Assembly in Ottawa, including assisting the chair and co-chair to prepare a video presentation, and on refreshing the Council of the North Month resources to be distributed to parishes in mid-July.

In terms of a long-term and broader approach, Hauser Communications will develop an improved, more financially sustainable communications infrastructure that can succeed over the long-term. This will be an infrastructure that requires minimal ongoing mentorship and guidance, and a communications plan that can be continually updated and evaluated.

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Anglican Church of Canada, News from General Synod, May 17, 2013

New Zealand: Christchurch Cathedral crowned by color

Posted on: May 16th, 2013 by CEP Administrator No Comments
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By Taonga staff 
 
 

The Trinity Window is pieced together in Christchurch's Transitional Cathedral. Photo: Anglican Taonga

The Trinity Window is pieced together in Christchurch’s Transitional Cathedral. Photo: Anglican Taonga

 

[Anglican Taonga] Christchurch’s Transitional Cathedral is being given a colorful new outlook on the city.

The “trinity window,” crowning the main entrance facing Latimer Square, features images from the Rose Window in the quake-damaged cathedral.

Made up of triangular glass panels, the great window should be complete within days.

Bishop Victoria Matthews is excited by the progress. “This is what we have all been waiting for,” she said. ”What I see here… is fragments of a much larger picture.

”In this world we only see hints of the life to come. In this world, we get glimpses of extraordinary beauty and awe and hints of things to come. ‘We don’t get the whole picture all at once, and this window is like that.”

The NZ$5.4m (US$4.53m) Transitional Cathedral is now expected to open at the end of June.

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Episcopal News Service, May 8, 2013

Bicycle Ambulances on the Move

Posted on: May 16th, 2013 by CEP Administrator No Comments
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By Simon Chambers 

 

A completed tricycle ambulance in Bangladesh. Photo: UBINIG

 

 

They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.  If that’s so, PWRDF’s partners in Mozambique should be flattered that the bicycle ambulances that they have created, and that have captured the imaginations of Anglicans across Canada, have now been replicated in Asia.

As part of a maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) program in Bangladesh funded by PWRDF and the Canadian International Development Agency, PWRDF partner UBINIG has taken the idea of bicycle ambulances and run with it.

“UBINIG staff really liked the idea of bicycle ambulances,” said Zaida Bastos, PWRDF’s CIDA Program manager, who oversees the projects in Bangladesh as well as Mozambique.  “So they took the idea and made it work in their own context.”

“Their own context” sounds simple, but is not, because UBINIG is working in 15 districts across Bangladesh, and each district has its own challenges: some are in hill country, others are prone to disasters, still others are know for rampant poverty.  UBINIG has worked with local communities, government officials, and traditional birth attendants—known as dais—to identify and address those local needs.

“When we build the tricycle ambulances, we need to build for the tallest woman who might need to sit in it,” said Palash Baral, UBINIG’s Programs Manager, “so the tallest woman on the planning team sits in the bed of the ambulance, and they build the frame around her.”

Baral went on to talk about the need to cross rivers to reach health clinics in Bangladesh—a problem that the arid regions of Mozambique don’t face.  So boats are being built to ferry the tricycle ambulances across the rivers, each one constructed for the river it will serve.  “Every river has different waves and wind,” said Baral.

Five tricycle ambulances and two boats were constructed in 2012, and already another four ambulances and one more boat have been built this year.  By the end of PWRDF’s current program in Bangladesh, each of the 130 dai ghors (maternal health houses) that will service over 500 villages in the 15 districts will have its own tricycle ambulance, and five boats will enable those ambulances to cross rivers on the way.

Who knows where bicycle ambulances will appear next!

A boat to ferry the tricycle ambulance across the river

A boat designed to ferry the tricycle ambulance across the river. Photo: UBINIG

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The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund, Email Update–May 2013

Lambeth Palace Library regains stolen books

Posted on: May 14th, 2013 by CEP Administrator No Comments
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By Diana Swift  


The Great Hall at Lambeth Palace is home to 120,000 books. Photo: Lambeth Palace


From the standpoint of the Church of England’s intellectual heritage, Justin Welby’s new archiepiscopy is off to a very positive start.

A large cache of valuable historical books has been returned to the venerable Lambeth Palace Library, more than three decades after their theft by a former library associate.

According to BBC History magazine, the now-deceased employee confessed to the crime and the whereabouts of the books in a sealed letter sent to the library by his lawyer soon after his death in 2011. No further details about the mystery perpetrator are being released—perhaps to encourage other book stealers to imitate the repentant thief of Lambeth.

Searching the attic of the man’s modest London house, library staff found box after box of volumes—about 1,000 in all, comprising 1,400 individual publications. Their stolen index cards were stored in nearby drawers. Staff had known for decades that many of the library’s works were missing but understandably assumed they had fallen casualty to a 1941 incendiary bomb that hit Lambeth Palace’s Great Hall, where many early volumes were kept. The library, established in 1610, lost an estimated 10,000 books in that strike.

In 1975, librarians noticed empty spaces on shelves that had housed important works known to have survived the bomb, and empty spaces in the catalogues where their index cards should have been. Some of the collection’s most precious books—16th- and 17th-century volumes with maps dating from the great age of exploration of mariners such as Martin Frobisher—had disappeared.

Many of the books came from the collections of three 17th- century Archbishops of Canterbury: Richard Bancroft, George Abbot and John Whitgift, the last a trusted adviser to Queen Elizabeth I. They included an early edition of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part Two, as well as Theodor de Bry’s America, a 10-volume account of early expeditions to the New World, and illustrated medical texts such as Jacques Guillemeau’s The Frenche Chirurgerye.

According to James P. Carley, a retired distinguished research professor from Toronto’s York University, the heist also removed books by Daniel Defoe of Robinson Crusoe fame, and contemporary political tracts such as A Defence of the Honorable Sentence and Execution of the Queene of Scots, published days after Mary’s beheading in 1587. Carley, who first became interested in the Lambeth Library when doing research there, chronicled the history of the stolen collection in the April 13 issue of the UK magazine The Spectator.

Some items are still missing, says Carley, including the magnificently illustrated Mariners Mirror with its 45 engraved maps of Europe’s maritime coasts.

Despite alerts to booksellers in Britain and around the world, not one of the missing books had ever turned up, even though it became clear the thief had intended to sell them.

Now in the process of restoring the books, library conservationists found that the thief had excised or chemically removed identifying marks. “He cut out the archbishops’ coats of arms from the armorial leather bindings, and removed ownership stamps and library markings showing which case, shelf and spot each volume occupied,” says Carley, who is an associate fellow at Toronto’s Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies and author of The Books of King Henry VIII and His Wives. “The books themselves were in good condition—they were not covered in mould—but some had been taken apart to remove the maps,” says Carly, who hopes to help organize an exhibition of the restored books for 2015.

“We’re about 10 per cent of the way through the restoration program,” says Declan Kelly, director of libraries, archives and information technology for the national church institutions of the Church of England. “While the restoration will be challenging—for example, where a coat of arms was removed from a leather binding—our expert conservation staff are doing all they can to restore the books.” In addition to that, the staff is creating fresh coats of arms in matching leather and placing them into the gaps created by the removal of the originals.

“We are definitely giving some thought to an exhibition, which might be either physical or virtual, but at the moment don’t have definite plans,” Kelly adds.
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Anglican Journal News, May 1, 2013

 

Michael Lloyd, accountant and priest, 1935 – 2013

Posted on: April 27th, 2013 by CEP Administrator No Comments
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By Diana Swift

 

 

 

The Rev. Dr. Michael Lloyd made the Anglican Book Centre both a profit centre and a meeting centre. Photo: Anglican Journal


 

The Rev. Dr. Michael John Lloyd, CA, passed away on April 21, 2013, at the Toronto Grace Hospital.

Born in England on Jan. 27, 1935, a few year years before the outbreak of World War II, Fr. Lloyd later spoke of standing on the edge of a cliff as a boy to watch the aerial “dog fights” between British and German planes.

He graduated from the University of Leeds in 1956 and arrived in Montreal in 1957 to join the chartered accountancy firm of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Company.

The same year, he entered Diocesan Theological College in Montreal, graduating with a bachelor of divinity degree from McGill University in 1960 and also gaining admission to the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Quebec.  

Ordained in the diocese of Montreal in 1963, Fr. Lloyd served as assistant priest at St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Lachine until 1965 and then became manager of the Diocesan Bookroom in  Montreal as well as an assistant at Christ Church Cathedral.

Hired as director of the Anglican Book Centre (ABC), he relocated to Toronto and turned around the ailing book emporium. Thanks to his business acumen, Lloyd’s years as director from 1968 to 1995 were among the centre’s most profitable. According to anglican.ca, Lloyd transformed the centre into a veritable cash cow, expanding its inventory of high-quality non-print products—including fine pieces from London’s finest silversmiths, vestments from the Vatican’s Belgian suppliers. He travelled abroad to personally handpick jewelry and icons to sell in the store.

Profits aside, however, says the Rev. Daniel Graves, priest-in-charge at Trinity Anglican Church in Bradford, Ont., “Michael created a unique and remarkable place, a hub, a nexus, in which folks of all sorts and conditions, from all branches of Anglicanism and the wider Christian community would meet, share their experiences in ministry, exchange idea, and find the finest selection of religious books and merchandise anywhere in North America.” Lloyd hired Graves as a bookstore clerk.

“Indeed, under his leadership, the centre quickly became known as the greatest religious bookstore in the world,” Graves adds. “When visiting clergy and church dignitaries from around the world came to Toronto, a stop at Anglican Book Centre was always a requisite part of the journey.”

As ABC director, Lloyd was instrumental in establishing a successful trade publishing program for the church, publishing both The Book of Alternative Services 1985 and Common Praise 1998.

Always impeccably attired, “Michael could have been a character in a Trollope novel,” says Graves. “He was well known for his variety of interesting hats. On one memorable occasion he wore a tricorn hat into the book centre on Bastille Day. He had a wry sense of humour and eclectic tastes, all of which gave the centre its unique identity.

Anne Tanner, former manager of the ABC, recalls Lloyd as a larger-than-life figure—“a quiet but forceful presence and a sometimes unpredictable and intimidating man who was also very kind to those in trouble. He was very good dealing with the customers.”

After retiring from the ABC, he was associate priest at All Saints’ Kingsway Anglican Church and honorary assistant at St. George’s On-the-Hill Church, both in Toronto. The Rev. Canon Andrew Sheldon, parish priest at All Saints’, remembers Lloyd as a bon vivant, who loved life, fine suits and good food.

A devoted servant of the national church, Fr. Lloyd received an honorary doctorate in recognition of his contributions

 
His funeral service will be held on Friday, April 26, at 11 a.m. at All Saints’ Kingsway, 2850 Bloor St. W., Toronto.
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Anglican Journal News, April 25, 2013

Busan bound: delegates prepare for WCC Assembly

Posted on: April 27th, 2013 by CEP Administrator No Comments
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By Ali Symons, General Synod Senior Editor

 

Canadian Anglican delegation to WCC Assembly

April 24, 2013–It will be a large, diverse, global gathering—some 825 Christian delegates from more than 300 churches—including the Anglican Church of Canada.

Melissa Green, Nicholas Pang, and the Rev. Canon John Alfred Steele are official Canadian Anglican delegates to the tenth World Council of Churches (WCC) Assembly Oct. 30 to Nov. 8 in Busan, Republic of Korea.

This assembly, the WCC’s highest governing body, meets every seven years. Working under the theme “God of life, lead us to justice and peace,” the assembly aims to deepen churches’ commitment to visible unity and common witness.

On April 11 and 12, the three Canadian delegates participated in an ecumenical orientation in Toronto, where they learned about the assembly and the WCC, which connects Canadian Anglicans with some 500 million Christians—Orthodox, Lutheran, Reformed, and others—in more than 110 countries.

“I’m really excited and a little scared. This is big,” said Ms. Green, program director at Sorrento Retreat and Conference Centre in Sorrento, B.C. She expects to be reading a lot about WCC work between now and the assembly.

Each day of the Busan meeting will be grounded in common prayer and Bible study. Delegates review WCC work and have time to meet by regions and confessions. Four days feature “madang” segments for exploring more specific topics in workshops, exhibitions, and side events.

Canon Steele, a priest in Victoria, B.C., said he is looking forward to the assembly receiving a “very exciting” theological document-The Church: Towards a Common Vision. This document reveals what WCC member churches can say together about the church. It is the first of these “convergence” documents since a 1982 agreement on baptism, Eucharist, and ministry.

The Busan assembly will also adopt a unity statement, a tradition at past assemblies.

Canon Steele is the veteran of the delegation. He attended the last WCC Assembly in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and has served on the WCC’s central committee since then.

“Unity is important because division among churches detracts from our witness,” he said.

Ms. Green and Mr. Steele were elected by the Council of General Synod and Mr. Pang, an ordinand in the Diocese of Montreal, was chosen later to fulfill balances mandated by the WCC.

In Busan, the Korean Christian context will be an important theme. For two days, delegates will learn more about ecumenical life in Korea, where Christians make up one quarter of the population.

At the ecumenical orientation in Toronto, organizers said that Korean leaders in Busan appear unphased by recent threats of violence from North Korea. Assembly work is proceeding as planned.

In addition to the 825 delegates, the assembly will welcome hundreds of volunteers, workshop leaders, and guests.

Archdeacon Bruce Myers, General Synod’s coordinator for ecumenical relations, will attend as advisor to the delegation. National Indigneous Anglican Bishop Mark MacDonald will be present as consensus candidate for the WCC North American regional presidency.

Two Canadian Anglicans serve as WCC staff and will attend the assembly: the Rev. Canon Dr. John Gibaut, Director of Faith and Order, and Natasha Klukach, WCC program executive for Church and Ecumenical Relations / North American Regional Relations

The Rev. Canon Dr. Alyson Barnett-Cowan, another Canadian Anglican, will attend as the Anglican Communion’s director for Unity, Faith, and Order.

Photo: WCC Assembly delegates (L-R) Nicholas Pang, Melissa Green, and the Rev. Canon John Alfred Steele in Toronto.

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Anglican Church of Canada, News from General Synod, April 24, 2013

 

Canadians show solidarity at Asian peace conference

Posted on: April 26th, 2013 by CEP Administrator No Comments
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By Ali Symons, General Synod Senior Editor

Delegates at Okinawa conference

April 25, 2013–Being part of the worldwide Anglican Communion means sharing the joy and pain of other churches—even when they’re halfway across the world.

Solidarity was the main motivation for Dr. Andrea Mann, General Synod’s coordinator for Global Relations, when she attended the second Worldwide Anglican Peace Conference in Okinawa, Japan, April 16 to 22.

The conference was “worldwide” in that it was open to international participants. Yet the focus was on the domestic contexts of conference co-organizers: the Japanese Anglican Church (Nippon Sei Ko Kai) and the Anglican Church of Korea.

“It has been a positive experience for churches in the region to be given a platform,” said Dr. Mann. “[It's also] an opportunity to educate others and feel that people are in solidarity with them.”

The first Worldwide Anglican Peace Conference—known as “Towards Peace in Korea”—was held November 2007 in Seoul, South Korea.

In Korea, Anglicans are working for the peaceful reunification of North and South Korea, even as North Korea threatens war. In the meantime, Anglicans in South Korea provide humanitarian aid to North Koreans.

In Japan, Anglicans have worked to help those affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake and the nuclear power plant meltdown.

In Okinawa, Anglicans joined other residents in challenging the presence of 32 U.S. military bases, which many view as an unnecessary and intrusive holdover from World War II.

At the Okinawa meeting, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori of the Episcopal Church gave a keynote address on how churches can respond to this crisis.

She acknowledged that Okinawa had been “treated as a colony for centuries,” and encouraged Christians to realize that “[o]ur task can be none other than challenging military responses to fear with non-violent and peaceful approaches.”

Some eighty conference delegates attended from Anglican/Episcopal churches in Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Australia, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.

At the conference, delegates shared stories, learned about the local Okinawa context, and heard greetings from Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.

In a concluding communique, participants called for the creation of an East Asia peace network, and the ongoing support of churches seeking justice in the region.

During the conference, Dr. Mann presented key peace and justice issues for Canadian Anglicans. She shared how Canadians have led the revision of the fourth Mark of Mission, so that it now includes references to peace-making and reconciliation. She also highlighted domestic work such as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and international commitments.

For example, the Anglican Church of Canada has committed to hold Canadian extraction industries accountable for their work in other countries—especially in the Philippines.

Close ties exist between Anglicans in these countries. General Synod has a longstanding covenanted relationship with Anglican and ecumenical partners in the Philippines and there are currently opportunities for Canadian Anglican dioceses to pair with dioceses in this country.

Dr. Mann says she expects that a third worldwide peace conference will be announced soon. She also hopes for future partnerships between the conference and the Anglican Peace and Justice Network, where she serves on the steering committee.

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Anglican Church of Canada, News from General Synod, April 25, 2013

 

Kairos marks Earth Day with water campaign

Posted on: April 22nd, 2013 by CEP Administrator No Comments
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By Staff

 

Kairos says recent federal legislation reduces environmental protections for Canadian waters.  Photo: Leonid Ikan/Shutterstock


The ecumenical social justice organization Kairos suggests that Canadians observe Earth Day today by joining its campaign to protect Canadian waters and build right relations with aboriginal people.A petition asks MPs to support repealing parts of two omnibus pieces of legislation, Bills C-38 and C-45, passed last year, which Kairos argues have changed more than 100 federal laws without adequate consultation with aboriginal peoples. That, according to information on the Kairos website, “undermines not only the right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent as required by the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (endorsed by Canada in November, 2010) but also section 35 of The Constitution Act (1982).” The bills were a catalyst for the Idle No More protests that swept across Canada last year.

Kairos says the new legislation shortened environmental assessment processes and made significant changes to the Navigable Waters Protection Act (NWPA). Although the 1882 act was originally designed to ease navigation through logging, bridge-building and other types of industrial development, it has also “served as a de facto environmental check on such structures and undertakings.” According to Kairos, “It has been described as one of Canada’s oldest pieces of environmental legislation.”

With the enactment of Bill C-45, the NWPA became the much narrower Navigation Protection Act (NPA), which covers a short list of three oceans, 97 lakes and portions of 62 rivers, said Kairos. Another NGO, Ecojustice, calculates that “Canada contains at least 32,000 ‘major lakes’ and 2.25 million rivers, which means that more than 99% of Canada’s lakes and rivers, many of them in traditional and resource-rich areas, will be excluded from the environmental assessment that the NWPA once demanded.”

“These changes, created in part to ease the way for resource extraction, are a challenge not just to the sacredness of Creation,” the statement from Kairos said. “They also challenge our relationships with Indigenous peoples, on whose traditional territories these projects are being imposed.”

Henriette Thompson, public witness co-ordinator for social justice for the Anglican Church of Canada, said this is an issue most Canadians can relate to. “Water is so precious to us on a daily basis. We drink it, cook with it and wash with it. Since many of us have direct experience or knowledge of contaminated wells, oil and chemical spills, and mercury in the fish on our dinner plates—we understand the high stakes in the legal protection of waters. When the law is weakened we know that all beings who live near watersheds will suffer in particular, and we all will bear the effects in ways we often can’t anticipate. “

 

More information is available at Kairos’ Our Waters, Our Life page.

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Anglican Journal News, April 22, 2013

 

Anglicans prepare for TRC event in Montreal

Posted on: April 22nd, 2013 by CEP Administrator No Comments
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By Staff 

 

(Left to right) Connie Cox (nee Pachano), Elsie Pepabano, Juliet Bearskin (nee Head), Annie Jolly (nee Tapiatit) and Maria Fleming brush their teeth at bedtime (1947-1948). Photo: Anglican Church of Canada General Synod Archives

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Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, will lead a delegation of Anglicans expected to participate in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) Quebec National Event, scheduled April 24 to 27, in Montreal. The event, to be held at Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth Hotel, will be an occasion for former students to share their stories about their experiences in Indian residential schools, and for churches, including the Anglican Church of Canada, to listen and offer their apologies and gestures of reconciliation.

For more than 150 years, about 180,000 First Nations, Inuit and Métis children were removed from their homes and sent to federally funded schools managed by Anglican, Catholic, Presbyterian and United churches. There were students who suffered physical, emotional and sexual abuse in these schools.

As part of the 2007 Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, the TRC was created to document the history of residential schools and to make sure every Canadian is educated about it.

The Anglican Church of Canada operated over 30 residential schools across Canada. Seven of these schools are represented in the Quebec event: Shingwauk Indian Residential School, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., and St. John’s Indian Residential School, Chapleau, Ont. (Diocese of Algoma); Mohawk Institute Residential School, Brantford, Ont. (Diocese of Huron); Pelican Lake Indian Residential School, Sioux Lookout, Ont. (Diocese of Keewatin); Bishop Horden Memorial School, Moose Factory, Ont.; St. Philip’s Indian Residential School, Fort George, Que. (Diocese of Moosonee); and La Tuque Indian Residential School, La Tuque, Que. (Diocese of Quebec).  (Click here: http://www.anglican.ca/relationships/trc/histories for more information about these schools)

As in previous TRC national events, the church’s General Synod Archives will have a booth to share its collection of Indian residential schools records, including photographs, with former students and the general public.

The Quebec event will kick off with “Education Day,” which offers elementary and high school students in Montreal a chance to learn about the history of the schools through various activities. Former governor general Michaelle Jean, a TRC honorary witness, is expected to interact with students at this gathering.

Other activities include the Survivors’ Walk and procession, a town hall meeting on reconciliation, sharing circles, survivor birthday celebrations, knowledge sessions, churches’ listening area and private statement gathering, among others.

Click here for more information about the Quebec National Event.

Watch for Anglican Journal coverage of the event on our website.

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Anglican Journal News, April 22, 2013

Bishop Whalon presents pope with Book of Common Prayer

Posted on: April 19th, 2013 by CEP Administrator No Comments
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[Episcopal News Service] Bishop Pierre Whalon, of the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe, on March 20 presented Pope Francis, or the bishop of Rome, a special, black leather-bound edition of the Spanish-English selections from the Book of Common Prayer, published by the Convocation. Whalon was part of an Anglican delegation attending the pope’s installation led by the Archbishop of York, and among the first audience to be seen by the pope in the Clement VIII audience room.

Whalon was a guest at the installation and the audience of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity. You can read about his experience here.

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Episcopal News Service, April 19, 2013